Christian Friedrich Herold

Born 1700; died 1779.

German porcelain painter. He began by working in Berlin for Alexander Fromery and may have continued to decorate enamel boxes for him while working as a painter at the Meissen Porcelain Factory, by whom he was employed from 1725 to 1777, beginning as a painter of chinoiseries and then moving to the harbour scenes in black or red for which he is best known (e.g. ewer and basin c. 1740; Los Angeles, CA, Getty Mus.). Herold was prosecuted as a Hausmaler in 1763, and this private work may be the source of the pieces that he signed. He seems to have been a relation of johann gregorius Höroldt.

Gordon Campbell. "Herold, Christian Friedrich." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, http://www.oxfordartonline.com.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/subscriber/article/grove/art/T2072355 (accessed April 27, 2012).